Explosion -Alternate (was: Attack on Hogwarts)

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 107667

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003"
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
> <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> > 
> > So far, of all the named places of significance in the WW, there's
> > only one we haven't been to - Azkaban. Now that  the Dementors 
> > have gone Harry and his chums could visit without having an attack
> > of  the vapours.

 
> Carolyn:
> Worth remembering something she says on her website about the 
> earliest versions of Chapter 1 of PS/SS:
> 
> '[I had] the Potters living on a remote island, Hermione's family 
> living on the mainland, her father spotting something that resembles 
> an explosion out at sea and sailing out in a storm to find their 
> bodies in the ruins of their house.'
> 
> She says she subsequently re-located the Potters to Godric's Hollow, 
> for plot reasons, but then goes on to say:
> 
> 'I have come close to using a chapter very like this in PS, POA,
> OOP, but here [ie Book 6] finally, it works...when you read it, just
> know that it's been about thirteen years in the brewing.'
> 
> It seems to me that the idea of an explosion on an island out at sea 
> could very well become an explosion at Azkaban.
> 
> 
> Carolyn


Asian_lovr2:

I think Carolyn has brought up a very important point, although I'm
not sure she realizes it. Notice that Carolyn posted her quote in two
separate parts. Also, note that the new Book 6 chapter is 'very like
this' rather than 'actaully is'.

Here is my read on what JKR said. She first discussed one possible
scenerio about how it all began. This one possible scenerio was
disgarded as unworkable and changed to the Godric's Hollow version.

As a completely separate statement, she goes on to say that at last
she has found a way to use a chapter 'very like this'. The 'very like
this' is not an island exploding and Hermione's parents rushing to
help, that story line was discarded, not postponed; the chapter in
question is the /further/ explanation of what happened the night
Harry's parents died which is the night at Godric's Hollow.

So my read is that JKR had two versions of events; one discarded, the
other postponed. It is now finally in Book 6 that JKR is able to give
us the account of Godric's Hollow events that she has not, so far,
been able to work into the story.

I'm not saying I'm absolutely right, just that this is how I
interpreted what JKR said when I first read it, and until convinced
otherwise, it's the interpretation I'm sticking with.

Just a thought.

Steve/asian_lovr2